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Retort to what? I haven't seen an argument yet.

C'mon, you are just jealous that you don't have a good Muslims are bad story to share.

What else could he have said?

Iron City Beer will never take the job. The beer is concerned it can't recruit good assistants like Perogies because RW won't pony up the money.

I think the question is "when" he is overthrown.

His avatar doesn't react to the polls. That is real avatar leadership.

did what?

Silly. That is not the way the pros do it. Professionals like Modrak and Levy are old school which means they hire programmers to plug vital stats into the old Techmo Bowl program and then run the simulations.

Pat doesn't need that kind of stuff. His God is causing natural disasters and giving people strokes left and right. How are muslims going to compete with that kind of firepower.

How do they top it tomorrow. I think "Recent Speculation" will lead.

I think it means you are making out without being properly introduced. Jim Haslett is sick.

I miss the good old days. Informal conversations never led the channel 7 news, it was always pistol packing punks and 5 alarm blazes in Cheektowaga.

Both kicks had one thing in common however.... I wonder if Vincent Gallo had money on the game.

Hopefully Bill is tired of the Colts by now and wants to come home to OBD.

I think the fact that owners need spots in the hall of fame is the height of vanity. If these guys needed a legacy, they could fund one by themselves.

That's what I heard. He was asked if he had wanted to go for it why the punting team ran out, and the answer I heard was that (I paraphrase): I decided to go for it and the punting team ran out on to the field out of habit (because it was fourth down).

I watched the post-game press conf. Dungy didn't say "overenthusiastic", he said "out of habit."

By this study's standards: "Only 41 percent of graduate students tested in 2003 could be classified as "proficient" in prose -- reading and understanding information in short texts -- down 10 percentage points since 1992" This essentially means that only 59% of Masters and PhD candidates are functionally literate today by their own standards. Of course the ALA has a vested interest in promoting such studies, which makes me wonder, how many current Masters in Library Science candidates participated in the sample?

Myth.

Although I didn't see the John Stossel report, I think the idea that American schools are largely failing is a myth. Of course you could provide cross cultural data that says the Chinese are scoring better in mathematics or something like that, but those comparisons are rather odious because it assumes that a factory floor model of education is actually of benefit to kids because of test scores. The question is, if American schools are failing, whose kids are they failing. A higher percentage of students graduate from High School than ever before with almost one quarter of the population holding a bachelors degree. If anything we are overeducated for much of the work that needs to be done in an America which is swithching to the service sector. Most people are satisfied with the quality of the schools they send their children to, and probably the best guarantee that your child does well in school is that a parent takes an active interest. Having said all that, see what would happen in most schools if you required a 90 average to participate in team sports in high school. The parents would flip out! It is more likely that school boards and parents are standing in the way of a decent education (parents and school boards most often prove to be more anti-intellectual than teachers, and are the ones that set standards). If public schools are failing, how are they failing? or how do you quantify such a thing?

Do you think it is a good idea to bring in a podium from within the same conference?

runsheltoninredzone wait that is the old one, new one: 2hotinBuffalo4me

I just rely on Madame Cleo, Jean Dixon, and Absynthe.

I just hope the new podium has big league podium experience. The last thing we need is a college podium.

Nice posts SDS, it is not surpirsing at all that the atmosphere is poisoned at OBD, there is some serious house cleaning happening. It will all settle down. It is good all this is going down now rather than 6 weeks from now.